Ken Hutcherson Equates Gregoire to Presidential Assassin

Ken Huthcherson, who’s church reported last week that he was the official spokesperson for the anti-marriage equality campaign, just compared Governor Gregoire to John Wilkes Booth for introducing legislation that would give gays and lesbians the right to marry in Washington.

She might as well change her name to John Wilkes Booth because what she’s doing now is trying to put a bullet in the head of one of the greatest traditions that has ever existed and has built our society, and that is marriage between one man and one woman.

How do you equate support of extension of civil rights to the assassination of a sitting president? Hutcherson has just gone too far. If the governor is assassinating anything, it’s state-sponsored bigotry.

Let’s look at Massachusetts or any other state that has marriage equality — have straight people there stopped marrying? No. Hutcherson’s use of such hyperbole shows how desperate and factually challenged his campaign against marriage equality is.

I agree with Laurel. This an absurd perversion of history. Lincoln fought and died for the expansion of civil liberties for citizens of this country. Like Lincoln, Governor Gregoire is a champion of civil liberties. So if anyone is similar to John Wilkes Booth in this story, it is Hutcherson. Fortunately, he is only a character assassin, and his bullets are empty words and meaningless analogies.

It is incredibly sad that opponents of equality for families like mine are resulting to slander and lies. I guess they have no other choice if they are going to oppose civil liberties, because telling the truth only leads to one conclusion; marriage for gays and lesbians is good for our state, for families, and for the institution of marriage.